I'm trying to play Bad Company 2 on bootcamp (iMac "late 2009", windows XP single user "student whatever edition"), but the multiplayer apparently always freezes after less than 1 minute of play. I've tried playing on a server without punkbuster, but it freezes anyway.

The single player works fine instead, so I guess it's not an engine problem (unless the multiplayer is for some reason much heavier).

It's not an account problem either, because with the same account I play without problems from other PCs.

Does somebody have any idea what could be causing this, and how to fix that?

I'll vote for closing, since the question seems to have become an unwanted child (among many others).
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DrFishJul 8 '11 at 6:48

@Bora: actually, I have not solved the problem yet.
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LohorisJul 8 '11 at 8:50

Good to hear from you, well, not so good that the problem still persists. Is there any update on the issue, things that didn't work, for example? How can we help further?
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DrFishJul 8 '11 at 9:05

The game supports push-to-talk microphone. Try disabling the microphone (via hardware, not via game), Unplug any and all joysticks. If you have steam, disable the game overlay (chat/friends/browser). In fact, ANYTHING which might pop up a message (IM, email application, etc.). There is a way to change the directx version via INI file in your user profile AFAIK
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horatioJul 8 '11 at 20:31

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No one had a clue, and meanwhile that game is dead. Can be closed now.
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LohorisJul 2 '12 at 12:18

I'll try. With "freezes" I mean it completely locks up the computer and I have to hard-reboot, the image stays still and the audio I don't remember at the moment.
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LohorisMay 9 '11 at 7:17

Have you tried the typical 'uninstall -> reinstall' process just to eliminate the possibly of a dodgy installation.
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Craig PilgrimMay 9 '11 at 10:05

Of course not, it didn't even occur to me to do that; chances are that would be a huge waste of time.
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LohorisMay 10 '11 at 7:15

I've known much crazier things to happen, all its takes is for one file to get corrupted and knob everything up (radial file in BF2142 for example). And this guy is running bootcamp so it kinda is windows :P
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Craig PilgrimJun 8 '11 at 13:16